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Reviews of The Delight

Wildlife sightings and reviews

37 independent comments and wildlife information from our travellers who have visited The Delight and kindly agreed to share their thoughts. They do not necessarily represent the views of Expert Africa

Showing 11-20 of 37
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Arrival date
Mr D & Ms G
London

"The Delight review"

1 night Arrived 19 May 2023
"Pleasant room. There was a problem with loud music coming from a nearby venue. The hotel manager came out especially to stop it going beyond midnight and apologised to us the next morning.

An employee also helped us with a flat tyre on our car the next morning.

Surprisingly the best and most efficient breakfast of the trip including oysters!" See all these reviews: 13n in Namibia
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Good

Location:
Good
Food:
Excellent
Rooms:
Average
Mr & Mrs QS
Wiltshire

"The Delight review"

2 nights Arrived 13 Mar 2023
"not sure what this is?" See all these reviews: 14n in Namibia
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent

Location:
Good
Service:
Good
Rooms:
Good
Food:
Average
Mr A
Mallorca

"The Delight review"

2 nights Arrived 23 Dec 2022
"The delight is clean, comfortable and well located in Swakopmund and everywhere was within easy walking distance.

We loved dinner at the tug. Swakopmund is also a great base for adventure in its own right.

We kayaked with seals this trip and offroaded through the dunes down to sandwich harbour on our previous visit." See all these reviews: 21n in Namibia
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent

Kartik
Patel

"The Delight review"

3 nights Arrived 2 Oct 2022
"Delightful place for a pitstop on our trip, centrally located in Swakopmund.

It was cold and windy on the coast so we were happy to find hot water bottles provided in the turn down service.

Laundry service is reasonably priced and quick." See all these reviews: 15n in Namibia
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Good

Location:
Excellent
Service:
Excellent
Facilities:
Good
Rooms:
Excellent
Food:
Average
Mrs A.
Newcastle

"The Delight review"

3 nights Arrived 15 Aug 2022
"Quirky hotel with great family rooms (over split level), very good service and lovely breakfasts.

Only downside is that the buildings that the rooms are housed in are wooden only so very cold (day and night) and did creak quite a lot.

The hotel staff did bring hot water bottles around at bedtime though which was amazing!" See all these reviews: 13n in Namibia
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Good

Rooms:
Good
Food:
Excellent
Service:
Excellent
Facilities:
Good
Mrs J.
Newton Abbot

"The Delight review"

3 nights Arrived 7 Jul 2022
"Large clean airy rooms. very helpful staff." See all these reviews: 15n in Namibia
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent

Location:
Excellent
Service:
Excellent
Facilities:
Excellent
Rooms:
Excellent
Food:
Excellent
Ms M
Switzerland

"The Delight review"

3 nights Arrived 3 Apr 2022
"We were given a room on the second floor at the back side of the hotel, looking at the car park behind the hotel.
I immediately complained and got then a sunny room overlooking the street. The hotel was not fully booked at all. So...

We enjoyed the hotel in the end. Nice rooms and very good breakfast." See all these reviews: 21n in Namibia
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Good

Location:
Good
Service:
Good
Activities:
Good
Rooms:
Good
Food:
Good
Facilities:
Good
Mr R.
Paia, Hawaii

"The Delight review"

2 nights Arrived 23 Sep 2021
"restaurants on the coast are good - bring a sweater - temps in October were 10 C in the morning . The Fir seal colony is worth a stop if you are traveling north ." See all these reviews: 14n in Namibia; 3n in Zimbabwe
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Good

Location:
Good
Service:
Good
Activities:
Average
Rooms:
Good
Food:
Good
Facilities:
Good
AK
USA

"The Delight review"

2 nights Arrived 30 Aug 2021
"We were positively surprised: large and very comfortable room, excellent breakfast (one of the best in trip), helpful staff.

We found the town of Swakopmund quite depressing and lifeless (could be as a result of covid curfew), so one night could have been enough." See all these reviews: 15n in Namibia
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent

Location:
Excellent
Service:
Excellent
Activities:
Excellent
Rooms:
Excellent
Food:
Excellent
Facilities:
Excellent
chris
France

"The Delight review"

3 nights Arrived 7 Aug 2021
"There was a mistake with the reservation at the delight which led to us being separated by two flights of stairs from our childrens room. We had to move rooms on day 2.

The rooms were large, modern and clean.

The first room (number 37) was very noisy at night due the adjacent laundry which operated throughout the night.

Service was mixed and ranged from friendly and helpful to rude and apathetic (particularly on the Sunday).

Expert Africa offered to move the reservation to an alternative hotel which in hindsight we should have accepted despite being tired after the journey.

Breakfast was good" See all these reviews: 17n in Namibia
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent

Location:
Average
Service:
Poor
Activities:
Average
Rooms:
Good
Food:
Good
Facilities:
Average
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